Thermofluids / [Textbook

Content: Front Matter....Pages i-xv Introduction — some reminders and definitions....Pages 1-16 Modelling....Pages 17-40 Temperature and its measurement....Pages 41-55 Pressure in a static fluid....Pages 56-78 The conservation laws....Pages 79-90 The transport laws....Pages 91-105 Ideal gases and the ideal gas laws....Pages 106-122 The non-flow energy equation....Pages 123-136 Derivations from the non-flow energy equation....Pages 137-152 Properties of vapours....Pages 153-171 Flow energy equations....Pages 172-197 Ideal incompressible flow....Pages 198-223 Internal flow with friction....Pages 224-250 Internal flow systems....Pages 251-278 External flow....Pages 279-304 The second law of thermodynamics....Pages 305-325 Gas cycles and internal combustion engines....Pages 326-352 Vapour cycles....Pages 353-370 Gas mixtures and real gas behaviour....Pages 371-386 Psychrometry....Pages 387-410 Combustion....Pages 411-431 Basic heat transfer....Pages 432-456 Heat exchangers....Pages 457-485 Convective heat transfer....Pages 486-511 Compressible flow....Pages 512-538 Propulsion....Pages 539-564 Turbomachinery....Pages 565-591 Renewable energy systems....Pages 592-614 Back Matter....Pages 615-656 The two associated subjects of thermodynamics and fluid mechanics are combined in this book to provide the reader with an easy-to-follow text which emphasizes the essential coherence of the material.